A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, January 8th!
| 1642 | Astronomer Galileo Galilei died in Arcetri, Italy.  |
| 1681 | The Treaty of Radzin ends a five year war between the Turks and the allied countries of Russia and Poland. |
| 1745 | England, Austria, Saxony and the Netherlands form an alliance against Russia. |
| 1815 | U.S. forces led by Gen. Andrew Jackson defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. |
| 1871 | Prussian troops begin to bombard Paris during the Franco-Prussian War. |
| 1892 | A coal mine explosion kills 100 in McAlister, Oklahoma. |
| 1900 | The Boers attack the British in Ladysmith, South Africa, but are turned back. |
| 1908 | A subway line opens linking the New York boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan. |
| 1912 | The African National Congress was founded in Bloemfontein, South Africa.  |
| 1918 | President Woodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points for peace after World War I. |
| 1940 | Great Britain begins rationing sugar, meat and butter. |
| 1946 | President Harry S. Truman vows to stand by the Yalta accord on self-determination for the Balkans. |
| 1954 | President Dwight Eisenhower proposes stripping convicted Communists of their U.S. citizenship. |
| 1959 | Charles De Gaulle was inaugurated as president of France’s Fifth Republic.  |
| 1963 | President John F. Kennedy attends the unveiling of the Mona Lisa. |
| 1964 | President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a war on poverty. |
| 1979 | The United States advises the Shah to leave Iran. (A great guest post about the Shah of Iran.) |
| 1982 | AT&T settled the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against it by agreeing to divest itself of the 22 Bell System companies. |
| 1987 | The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 2,000 for the first time, ending the day at 2,002.25. |
| 1998 | Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was sentenced in New York to life in prison.  |
| 2007 | A Moroccan man convicted of aiding three of the four pilots who committed the 9/11 attacks was sentenced by a German court to the maximum 15 years in prison. |
| 2011 | Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., was shot and critically wounded when a gunman opened fire as the congresswoman met with constituents in Tucson; six people were killed and 12 others were injured. (Jared Lee Loughner has pleaded not guilty to 49 charges in connection with the shooting.) |
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